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St. John Paul II said that suffering is almost inseparable from man’s earthly existence. At times, suffering can lead you closer to Christ. And at other times, it can seem to lead you further away from Him.
We’ve been working on our next online retreat to help steer you closer back to Him, who is the Divine Healer.
A little more than ten years ago, John-Paul was single.
Little did he know… I was praying a novena, asking God to help me meet my future husband. Now, John-Paul & I are married and coming up on our eighth wedding anniversary!
And the next novena we’re praying together is the one I prayed all those years ago: the St. Anne Novena!
We will start praying on July 17th! That’s this Friday.
St. Anne is the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus. She is a very powerful intercessor!
You may have heard that those discerning marriage often pray to St. Anne for help in finding a spouse. But, St. Anne is also known to intercede for people for almost any request, and especially for healing.
You could also ask for her intercession for your marriage, for your grandparents or grandchildren, to grow in holiness and patience. You can ask her to pray for whatever it is that’s on your heart, she will bring your intentions to Jesus!
We hope you will join us in praying this novena! We will be praying for you and your intentions throughout the novena.
You can share your prayer intentions in the comment section below!
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost, so we start praying this novena on Wednesday, June 19th — that’s one week away!
For this novena, we will reflect on Jesus’ love for all of us. We will pray for our hearts to be conformed to His Sacred Heart.
We’re excited to announce that the next novena we’re praying is the original novena!
Novenas are an ancient tradition that goes back to the days of the Apostles.
Jesus told His disciples to pray together after His ascension into heaven, so they went to an upper room along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, (Acts 1:14) and joined constantly in prayer for nine days.
These nine days of constant prayer by the Apostles at the direction of Jesus led up to Pentecost. This is when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples as “tongues of fire” (Acts 2:1-4). This pattern of 9 days of prayer is the basis of the novenas we pray today!
Thus, the novena is an imitation of the Lord’s command to the Apostles when they prayed for 9 days in anticipation of the coming of the Holy Spirit.
And that’s why we pray all of our novenas for nine days, followed by one final prayer on the 10th day (which is usually the feast day).
Whenever we grow closer to Jesus’ mother, our mother, we grow closer to Jesus — because Mary always brings us to Jesus.
We will start praying on Friday, May 1st.
One more thing…
We’ve been wanting to be more of a help to you during this uncertain time. Please know of our prayers for you every day.
In addition to the daily novena prayers, while we pray the Our Lady, Undoer of Knots Novena, we will share with you one talk each day from one of our past retreats.
We organize three online retreats each year: one for Lent, one in the late Summer focused on Healing, and one for Advent. I went through our past retreats and found some talks that we think will be encouraging and helpful during this time!
You don’t need to do anything to receive these talks — we will include a link to them in our everyday novena prayer e-mails :) We hope they’ll be helpful while we pray together.
We know it may not feel like most… But one thing we love about Easter is that we celebrate it for so long… Lent lasts for 40 days, but the Easter season is 50 days long! It’s not over yet!
To continue our celebration, Annie and I wanted to send you our Easter card as a gift for you. We hope it brings you joy! It brings us joy to be able to pray with you. Thank you so much for praying with us.
Just scroll down to see our card :)
We’re praying for you every day!
God bless you!
John-Paul & Annie – PrayMoreNovenas.com
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